How do metamagic effects interact with Shadow Evocation and Shadow Conjuration? Does the Metamagic affect only the effect of the Shadow spell, or does it affect the spell being duplicated, as well?
Does a Maximized Shadow Evocation duplicating a Fireball give me a Maximized Fireball?
Does a Persistent Shadow Evocation duplicating a Fireball give me a Persistent Shadow Evocation, a Persistent Fireball, or both?
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You can apply metamagic feats to shadow evocation if they are legal and sensible for the effect of shadow evocation. Maximise Spell does nothing to the shadow evocation spell because it has no variable numeric effects. Persistent Spell would force the target to make two saves to avoid full damage from the shadow evocation.
The effect created by shadow evocation is not a fireball spell itself, but a quasi-real, illusory copy of a fireball. I think you could create a quasi-real copy of a spell affected by metamagic feats. You might not even need the feat to do so. This would increase the level of the copied spell and if it increased above 4th level, you couldn't cast it as a shadow evocation.